Is AI Alignment Enough? 2025-01-10T18:57:48.409Z

Comment by Aram Panasenco (panasenco) on Is AI Alignment Enough? · 2025-01-10T20:53:28.533Z · LW · GW

Thanks so much for engaging, Nathan!

The pivotal act was defined by Yudkowsky, I'm just borrowing the definition. The idea is that even after you've built a perfectly aligned superintelligent AI, you only have about 6 months before someone else builds an unaligned superintelligent AI. That's probably not enough time to convince the entire world to adopt a better governance system before getting atomized by nanobots. So your aligned AI would have to take over the world and forcefully implement this better governance system within a span of a few months.